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Corn’s up. I was surprised. It came up in seven days, which is the earliest noted on the seed packet. I think that having the plastic a foot above the ground allowed more air to get warmed, which heated the soil more than having the plastic laying on the ground. We’ve had overcast and rainy days since I planted and […]

There’s a problem with growing lettuce in the greenhouse. I don’t want to pick it. I’ve watched them grow, looked at them every day for three months, and every time I sit I enjoy their beauty. I knew that when the leaves in the row start touching that it would be time to start picking, but I didn’t. Now the […]

It’s cook’en under the plastic that’s covering my corn patch. Hot and humid, like the tropics. It made me realize I could start bush beans under a covered hoop tunnel too, so I did. Then I realized I’d have the earliest bean crop in the county, and my son would have none, so I planted another row 🙂 I’ve planted […]

Bright, light green leaves are forming on the tips of the blackberry vines, in front of the dark green ones that overwintered. The cranberry color of the vines, like the color of manzanita branches, is enjoyable all year long. The gray, silver, tan and brown vines that have died provide support for the newly forming vines, keeping the tender tips […]

Gardeners start your engines. It’s time to get a head start on your summer garden. Planting zucchini indoors, a month before the last frost, allows me to begin harvesting around Father’s day. I also start cantaloupe, watermelon and honeydew melons indoors, on a seed starting heated mat, to get a month head start on Mother Nature. After they get transplanted […]

Why did the earthworm cross the road? To see if a gardener would pick him up and put him back on the grass :). I find myself still doing that. It’s not the intrinsic value of the worm that provokes me, it’s a symbolic act of respecting all of the processes that go on in the earth that provides us […]

I got a row of peas planted, in spite of my wife bringing home an 8 week old Golden retriever puppy, and asking me to babysit it in the garden. The puppy’s name is Anny, and my garden may never be the same :). She thoroughly enjoyed running up and down the bird netted trellis, barking and biting at it. […]